Helping himself to a gorgeous-looking bowl of rice and chilled bottle of a popular soft drink as his hands carefully flicked through each naira note from the bunch clutched tightly between his left palm, Adamu Turaki, 54, sang quietly but excitedly to himself at intervals as he rests from a tiring day at ‘work’. Having returned to the spot after nearly walking nine, energy-sapping hours navigating different street corners in search of potential ‘clients’, treating himself to such ‘feast’ is a tradition he never misses at such periods. His picture and countenance on this evening speak of a man deeply content with the day’s ‘business’.

Helping himself to a gorgeous-looking bowl of rice and chilled bottle of a popular soft drink as his hands carefully flicked through each naira note from the bunch clutched tightly between his left palm, Adamu Turaki, 54, sang quietly but excitedly to himself at intervals as he rests from a tiring day at ‘work’. Having […]

The Human Right Watch (HRW) have accused Nigerian government officials and other authorities of sexually exploiting and raping of women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram. In a statement released by the Organisation on their official website, the government is not doing enough to protect displaced women and girls and ensure that they have […]

By Ogala Emmanuel Two companies linked to Doyin Okupe, a former media aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, got at least N1.6 billion off the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in three shady cyber security contracts, PREMIUM TIMES investigations have shown. One of the contracts had instructions to hunt down unfriendly media websites with Distributed […]

• Award-winning series Africa Investigates back on Al Jazeera • Babies are for sale in Nigeria for $4 000-5 000 • Full documentary available to embed from YouTube The third season of Al Jazeera’s award-winning Africa Investigates series continued last night with Nigeria’s Baby Farmers, where journalists Anas Aremeyaw Anas and Rosemary Nwaebuni went undercover […]

• Senator draws N1.4m monthly salary, Rep N1.1m By Abimbola Akosile The N120 billion allocated to the National Assembly in the 2015 budget is not spent by the 109 Senators and 360 members alone, contrary to popular belief, THISDAY has learnt. Instead, investigation has revealed that there are about 4,000 individuals, 145 committees, nine local […]

For those still wondering how Amaju Pinnick emerged the President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), their imaginations can cease as thrilling documents seen by Secrets Reporters has uncovered how millions was spent fictitiously to host NFF. In a letter written to Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan via the Secretary to the State Government (SSG) by Pinnick […]

By OSA AMADI There was pandemonium one afternoon at No. 9 Awofodu Street, Pedro, Lagos. Mama Nonso could not be consoled. She was screaming on top of her voice. It was not the scream of fright; it was an angry sound of a female animal whose young has fallen into the hands of a predator. […]

Former Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, is 73 years old today. In this interview to mark the occasion, Babangida, fondly called IBB, speaks on some critical issues in the country, including the continuous detention of the Chibok girls by the Islamist group, Boko Haram, the power situation in the country, the 2015 general elections, […]

Delegates at the National Conference are planning not to sign the final report of the conference unless they are given copies to read before they would append their signatures on it. Investigations by our correspondent in Abuja on Wednesday showed that the delegates felt that they needed to see the details of the reports. Already, […]